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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Newsweek Pakistan commemorates Nigar Ahmad

Newsweek Pakistan ran a collection of tribute posts for my mother's sister in its March 11-18 issue and put a beautiful photo of her on the cover. The tribute posts, written by Shehwar Rahim, Ahmed Rashid, Kamla Bhasin and Pervez Hoodbhoy, really captured the arc of my khala's life. Grateful to Fasih Ahmed, the magazine's Editor, for giving me the opportunity to write the cover story.

is clumsily juggling marriage, motherhood, moving, and editorship of a magazine. She has been described as 'an interesting typo of a person' and has been told that some day she'll be 'a famous God knows what'. Nuff said.